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And yes, I DO realize the real issue is fracking contaminating drinking water aquifers, and polluting other resources as well. It’s been used safely, and UNsafely, for decades in different areas. Geology and the fluids used, and care in drilling and maintaining DOES make a difference, but the vast majority of oil/gas companies just say, “go for it, profit is god!”, and THAT is the problem of letting those companies write, or rather CONTINUE TO WRITE, the regulations.

Dasani(CocaCola) and Aquafina(Pepsi), which draws this whole cartoon into question. If we lose our tap water, they lose their profits. On a different note: If you think NY water is nice, I dare you to try the tap water in the Rockies.

here’s a test.how clear are your ice cubes?In Honolulu, HI the ice has maybe 10-12 bubbles.Yes, you can count the bubbles. That’s better than the water from distillation. Like on a US Navy Vessel. Pure water…….

Any time there is a public policy “controversy”, follow the money, who profits and who loses. In Russia and the Russian Federation, they are fracking with no restrictions and no public scrutiny, they have millions of metric tonnes of natural gas they want to sell to the rest of the world, especially to Europe, where thanks to that scam artist Josh Fox and his essentially dishonest movie Gasland, several nations have ignored the science and made fracking illegal, because, you know, it’s bad, if it wasn’t bad would so many of their citizens have protested against it? Because all scientific decisions should be subject to popular opinion. /sarc

That’s the major issue as I see it. It’s not only fracking, either – industry as a whole has been busily rewriting all the regulations which are supposed to protect consumers since Reagan gave them the green light. They never looked back, so now we have a law protecting Monsanto from any damage they might do in the past, present or future.

Did you know we have GMO trees now? Trees that kill insects, trees that develop so little lignin they are prone to collapse …

The trees are a particularly poor proposition because they can’t be confined at all; they cross very readily with the wild ones, which might put the final nail into the coffin of our forests.

Monsanto has decided that the risks are nothing to it’s quarterly bottom line;; they have ruled for us.

About Clay Bennett

A nominated finalist for the Pulitzer 6 times since 1999, Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.